The two antibiotics fed in these four trials were Aureomycin and
Terramycin HCl at the level of 10 mg. per pound of total ration. Lot 1
pigs were the controls receiving the basal ration; Lot 2, basal plus
10 mg. of ...

Twenty head of good quality two-year-old Hereford steers were used.
They were wintered and summered on bluestem pasture until August
4, when this test was initiated.
The steers were divided into two uniform lots and ...

The tests this year compared whole milo with ground milo grain fed
with a standard roughage ration of ground sorghum stover, protein
supplement, and supplemental salt and limestone. The roughage comparisons
included (1) ...

The amount of antibiotic generally recommended in swine-fattening
rations is 5 mg. per pound of total feed consumed. Some workers have
felt that higher levels might produce more rapid and economical gains.
One purpose ...

This experiment was designed .to secure information on maximum
use of alfalfa meal in protein supplemental mixtures for pigs in dry lot.
The experiment on next page reports similar information from pigs on
alfalfa ...

Forty choice Hereford steer calves, purchased from the Lonker Ranch
in Barber county, Kansas, were used in this experiment. The steers of
Lot 1 were wintered in a dry lot at the experimental barn, while those
of the ...

Twenty head of good-quality Hereford yearling steers, 10 per lot.
were used. They were purchased as steer calves in the fall of 1953
from the Brite Ranch at Marfa, Texas, and used in summer grazing
tests on bluestem ...

The first experiment was conducted during the winter of 1953-54
with 60 heifer calves. The heifers were raised near Snyder, Texas, and
delivered to Manhattan .December 1, 1953. The heifers were assigned
December17, 1953, ...

Fifty Hereford heifers were divided into five lots as equally as possible
on the basis of weight, size, conformation, and previous treatment.
The heifers were wintered, 10 per loot, as calves on the following rations:
(1) ...

Fifty Hereford heifers were divided into five lots as equally as possible
on the basis of weight, size, conformation, and previous treatment.
The heifers were wintered, 10 per loot, as calves on the following rations:
(1) ...

This project was designed to study the difference between pelleted
and non-pelleted rations of different concentrations. Many commercial lamb
feeders are pelleting the entire ration and believe it is superior
to the ...

Swine commonly, obtain vitamin A from feed in the form of the provitamins-
carotene and cryptoxanthin-of alfalfa and yellow corn.
Swine are able to convert these provitamins to vitamin A, probably in
their intestinal ...

Much discussion in Kansas has concerned the desirability of crossbreeding
inbred breeds (so-called hybrids) with other breeds for meat-type hogs. Consequently, a Beltsville No.1 (Poland x Landrace origin) was secured and ...

Forty head of choice-quality Hereford heifer calves were divided
into four lots of 10 animals each on the basis of weight and type.
Each animal was branded with an individual number and lot number.
All animals grazed ...

In the lamb-feeding tests at the Garden City Branch Station during
the 1953-54 feeding season, one lot of 48 lambs was given stilbestrol
implants of varying sizes at the beginning of the feeding period.
Another lot of ...

Forty head of choice-quality steer calves were used in the wintering
phase of this test. These calves were part of a shipment from the
Lonker Ranch, Medicine Lodge, Kan. The steers were assigned to lots
on the basis of ...

Twenty Hereford heifer calves were divided as equally as possible on
the basis of size, weight, and type into two lots of 10 animals each. Atlas
sorghum silage was used as the roughage and the amount fed was adjusted
to ...

Forty Hereford steer calves averaging about 450 pounds were divided
as equally as possible into four lots of 10 animals each. Two lots served
as controls and the other two lots received 10 mg. of stilbestrol per
head ...

Summer of 1954 test with spring pigs was to get information on the
maximum use of alfalfa meal in protein supplemental mixtures for
pigs in the dry lot.
Four lots of pigs were self-fed shelled corn and a mixed ...

Twenty good-quality Hereford yearling steers were used in this test.
They were purchased as steer calves in the fall of 1953 from the Joyce
Ranch near Carlsbad, N.M. During the summer of 1953 the steers were
used in ...